Rachel is a British editor, journalist, and photographer living in Kyoto, Japan. With a speciality in luxury and boutique travel and lifestyle, Rachel has a love for exploring lesser-known locales and delving deep into cultural experiences. Self-proclaimed 'cocktail-aficionado' and 'always hungry'.

Rachel E T Davies

Laura Wheatley is a photographer and writer based out of New York who creates compelling travel and lifestyle content. Exploring the intoxicating beauty of Japanese culture has been one of her greatest passions and she is always planning her next return. She is especially drawn to the stories of artisans and seeks to showcase them and their craft.

Laura Wheatley

Prairie Stuart-Wolff is a writer, photographer, and guide based in Kyushu, Japan. She produces Cultivated Days which offers seasonal stories and recipes, culinary immersion programs, and hosted travel focused on the ingredients, principles, and practices of Japan’s food culture.

Prairie Stuart-Wolff

Vince Ng is a dual citizen of Hong Kong and Canada as well as a Permanent Resident of Japan. Having explored Japan's rich culture and society from the perspective of an NGO worker in Tohoku, a trading company salaryman, and guesthouse producer, he is now focused on rural development projects.


Vince Ng

Amy Tang is a photographer born and raised in the New York metropolitan area. She is currently based in Zushi/Hayama, Japan. Her photography and words aim to capture stories in people, places, and things wherever she may be. She is endlessly inspired by nature, travel, and design.

Amy Tang

Maddie is a young journalist with a love for Japan, Japanese, and uncovering hidden stories. Currently studying for her International Journalism Master’s at City University, Maddie has a hankering to return to both Japan and Kyoto, where she spent an unforgettable year exchange. For the moment, Maddie is enjoying writing from her hometown, London.

Maddie is a young journalist with a love for Japan, Japanese, and uncovering hidden stories. Currently studying for her International Journalism Master’s at City University, Maddie has a hankering to return to both Japan and Kyoto, where she spent an unforgettable year exchange. 

Maddie Rose Baker

 is an Australian-born, Tokyo based writer and the co-founder of boutique creative agency Y+L Projects. She worked as a music journalist before moving to Japan on a whim, and the country's endless opportunities for adventure and exploration will keep her here a little while yet.

Lucy Dayman

Bryan Eastlake is a writer, translator, and occasional photographer based in Kyoto, Japan. His main interests are in languages and how cultural traditions from long ago continue to shape our values and understanding of the world despite the perpetual changes in society. He also loves to play the classical guitar.

Bryan Eastlake

IyaGallery was founded out of love for minimal Art and Japan by 

. The essence of her work is inspired by two of the characteristics of 

 - tranquility hoping to convey a sense of peace and happiness.

Emilie Van Camp

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Eriko is a calligrapher from Hirakata. She believes that to produce her best work, it is important to lose her ego through 

 meditation before creation of her pieces. Keeping her art as simple as possible, she hopes that people can see and feel them in their own way, leaving viewers the freedom to find the beauty within her works.

Eriko Aiura

Dan Cimmermann is a contemporary painter based in Yorkshire, U.K. He previously lived in Tokyo and has travelled widely in Japan. His work today continues to be influenced by Japanese culture, particularly the contrast between old and new, calm and chaos.

Dan Cimmermann

Emmy (she/her) is an illustrator, writer, and herbalist in training from Kyoto, Japan, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is focused on plants and is dedicated to rekindling human relationships with nature.

Emmy Reis

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Laura Wheatley is a photographer and writer based out of New York who creates compelling travel and lifestyle content. Exploring the intoxicating beauty of Japanese culture has been one of her greatest passions and she is especially drawn to the stories of artisans and seeks to showcase them and their craft.

Amy Tang is a photographer born and raised in the New York metropolitan area. She is currently based in Zushi/Hayama, Japan. Her photography aims to capture stories in people, places and things wherever she may be. She is endlessly inspired by nature, travel, and design.

Ben Richards is a travel photographer based in Tokyo, Japan.

Ben Richards

Mitsuru is a photographer based in Kyoto and Tokyo. Mitsuru is active in a wide range of photography styles: lifestyle, architectural, portrait, and landscape.

Mitsuru Wakabayashi

Dan is a photographer based in London with a passion for all things Japanese. Adopting a 'run-and-gun' style, he captures landscape, cityscape, architecture, street, lifestyle, and more. He loves playing with angles, perspective, and composition to create images that tell a memorable story.

Dan Gillett

Matteo Alberti

Born and raised in Kyoto, and known as Helvetica, Hideyuki disseminates the charm of Kyoto from various angles through photographs of Kyoto's scenery, culture, and food.

Hideyuki Nakao

Toru Morimoto is an award-winning documentary photographer. His works have been published and exhibited worldwide. Currently he is based in Miyama, Kyoto, where he has recently opened Miyama Photo Studio, which specialises in analogue photography. He offers portraits in Wet Plate Collodion, Polaroid Transfer, and Gelatin Silver.

Toru Morimoto

Tina Bagué is a professional travel photographer. She has recently moved to Miyama, Kyoto, from Barcelona. She has been photographing Japan for more than 20 years, and her photographs have been featured in many European magazines. Her photography book, JAPAN, was published in 2011 with Japanese photographer Toru Morimoto.



Tina Bagué

​​Joe is a British designer and photographer based in Kyoto. Joe's sense of composition in three-dimensional space is reflected in his creative, street-style photography.